000			01954nam a2200229 a 4500
008			151211s2003 xxu eng d
020			_a0813819660 (hardcover)
020			_a9780813819662 (hardcover)
082			_a632.90973 Sumner 19479 1st 2003 Parasitology
100	1		_aSumner, Daniel A. _918405
245	1	0	_aExotic Pests and Diseases :Biology and Economics for Biosecurity
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aUSA : _bWiley-Blackwell, _c2003.
300			_a265 p. ;
520			_aExotic pests and diseases have long been an important concern in agriculture. The problem is becoming increasingly urgent and complex because agricultural trade has been liberalized worldwide, and as a consequence, the probability of spreading a disease or a pest through national borders has become a real threat, not only for the agricultural industry but also for human health and the natural environment. This edited volume’s list of international contributors reads like a Who’s Who of international agricultural research! This book includes ten interdisciplinary case studies that focus on specific pests or diseases that represent a range of threats to U.S. agriculture, wild lands and the urban landscape, and possible government responses to these threats. Each chapter combines, in an original fashion, biological foundations and implications for the public, giving powerful insights to a series of public policy issues of national and international relevance. In many instances, economic analysis of alternative policies is included. Exotic pest control is discussed in a public good general framework, and under the international regulatory laws comprised by the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Protocol of the W
650			_aAgriculture and state _918406
650			_aParasitology _918407
650			_aNonindigenous pests--Control _918408
650			_aAgriculture--Economic aspects _910610
650			_aNonindigenous pests _918409
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